Mark Ruffalo shares surprising story about 'brain tumour diagnosis'

Mark Ruffalo has shared an unusual story about being diagnosed with brain tumour.

The Task actor, while chatting with Jason Bateman, Seas Hayes and Will Arnett on Smartless Podcast, opened that he was detected with a tumour behind his left ear while he was working on The Last Castle on 2001.

The surprising fact about this news is that Mark revealed that he had a random "dream" one day about him having a brain tumour. According to him, "it wasn’t even a voice, but a pure knowledge."

The Hulk actor opened on the podcast, "I just had this crazy dream. It wasn’t like any other dream I'd had. It was just like 'You have a brain tumour.'”

He added, the dream told me, “You have a brain tumour, and you have to deal with it immediately'.”

Ruffalo said that he didn’t experience any symptom other than earache before seeing this dream. But he immediately decided to get himself checked up by professionals.

On getting a CT scan, the doctors found a mass the size of a “golf ball” growing behind his left ear. Later, he was referred to get a biopsy to confirm if the tumour is "benign or malignant".

The 58-year-old added, "They said they had a 20 percent chance of nicking a nerve on the left side of my face and killing it, and then I had 70 percent chance of losing my hearing."

However, doctors found out that the tumour was "benign" and were able to remove the growth.